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B R I C K B U L L E T I N Domestic revival: Panter Hudspith, Proctor & Matthews, PRP, RCKa, Re-Format, and Weston Williamson profiled Learning from Lutyens: Hopkins Architects in London Peter Behrens’ Hoechst headquarters in Frankfurt First person: John Tuomey; plus Brick Awards 2011 WINTER 2011 Air cooled: Perforated brick facades by Munkenbeck 2 • BB WINTER 2011 Brick Bulletin Winter 2011 contents House style 4 FIRST PERSON The brick domestic architec - John Tuomey on Belfast’s Lyric Theatre – ture of Panter Hudspith, RCKa, supreme winner of the 2011 Brick Awards Re-Format, Weston Williamson, 5 BRICK AWARDS 2011 Proctor & Matthews, and PRP, Showcase of all 15 winners. profiled in this issue, reveals a 8 PROJECTS rich diversity not only in design Haverstock Associates, José Cruz Ovalle, and innovation, but in the MCR Architects, Hopkins Architects, Onix, reasons why brick remains Michelgroup, and Liddicoat & Goldhill. uniquely appropriate for hous - 14 PROFILE ing. John Tuomey also offers a John Ramshaw talks housing with Panter valuable insight into working Hudspith, Proctor & Matthews, RCKa, with brick on Belfast’s Lyric Re-Format, PRP, and Weston Williamson. Theatre, which is the supreme 20 PRECEDENT winner of the Brick Awards. Peter Behrens’ Hoechst hq in Frankfurt. Sarah Huelin 22 TECHNICAL Air cooled: Perforated brick facades To find out more about the bricks or pavers in featured projects, or to submit work, email by Munkenbeck & Partners. [email protected] or phone 020 7323 7030. 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The BDA provides practical, technical and aesthetic advice and information through its website www.brick.org.uk, in its numerous publications and over the phone. Frontispiece ISSN 0307-9325 Published by the BDA ©2011 Editorial/design: Architecture Today plc Onix’s mixed-use project in Slotervaart, Amsterdam, includes apartments, a mosque and school (ph: Peter de kan). cover Social housing in ARCHITECTURE carabanchel, Madrid, TODAY by José cruz Ovalle (ph: roland Halbe). BB WINTER 2011 • 3 FIRST PERSON John Tuomey of O’Donnell & Tuomey on the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, supreme winner of the 2011 Brick Awards. Building the Lyric in Belfast brick (Brick internalised, and by necessity, mostly brick skin to show how the loads are carried. Bulletin, Summer 2011) was a first principle windowless. We set out to play with these The auditorium has its own special timber of our design. We hoped that the design restrictions, making a cluster of solid sculp - lining, an acoustic instrument in a concrete might be seen as emerging out of the conti - tural forms, with profiled edges clearly case. Despite the weight and density of its nuity of its context – Belfast is an angular visible on the city skyline. The brick skin construction the building still feels lively, brick city. We chose a red brick to match the wraps each of the three functional elements: light and airy inside and out. It feels great to colour and texture of the typical Belfast the auditorium, studio, and rehearsal room. see it full of people and it seems to have brick. The site for the new theatre is located This outer crust runs uninterrupted from been adopted already as a popular meeting at the intersection of the red brick street outside to inside, enhancing the acoustic place in Belfast. We hope it continues to grid with the serpentine sweep of the River separation of parts. The brickwork brings a thrive with theatrical and social activity. Lagan. Each angle of the plan, and the feeling of raw material and archaic construc - This building is one of a series of urban resultant number of brick specials for its tion into the interior civic space of stair halls projects that we have built out of brick. The many corner conditions, are related to the and circulation areas. Thick-sliced sandstone Timberyard (Brick Bulletin, Summer 2009) peculiar restrictions of the site. The geome - and solid hardwood add to the feeling of is a social housing scheme that builds back try is a little complicated but the brickwork robust permanence given by natural materi - into the architectural character of our home simplifies the visual complexity. als. The concrete structure reveals itself at town of Dublin. We are currently on site in Theatre buildings are by their nature slab edges, sometimes cutting through the London with a site-specific design for a new student centre for the London School of Economics. In these buildings we have enjoyed working with brick, stretching out areas of the elevation to increase the sense of surface, and cutting into the skin to create depth and shadow. We like the impre - cise texture and the variety given by clay pig - mentation in contrast to very precise setting out lines and crafted construction. We find that builders and bricklayers like to be asked to pay attention to the visual refinement of their work. In the end everything depends on the quality of workmanship and materi - Top The Lyric Theatre in Belfast was named supreme als. With brickwork you can make radical winner of the 2011 Brick Awards. It also won the best buildings that feel both new and old, and public building category (brickwork contractor: Gilbert- strange and familiar at the same time. Ash NI; brick: Ibstock Brick – Leicester Red). Above The student centre at the London School of Economics will include a media centre, learning cafe, John Tuomey co-founded O’Donnell & Tuomey pub, exercise studio, activities space, and roof terrace. Architects in 1988, and is professor of architectural Left Timberyard social housing scheme in Dublin design at University College Dublin. (ph: Dennis Gilbert). 4 • BB WINTER 2011 BRICK AWARDS 1 2 3 Winners of the 2011 Brick Awards are The 2011 Brick Awards ceremony was held The Lyric Theatre, Belfast, by O’Donnell east London, by Maccreanor Lavington (3), selected from a record number of entries at the Marriott Grosvenor Square Hotel in & Tuomey Architects (First Person, oppo - won the award for best housing development London on 2 November after an exhaustive site) was named the supreme winner as well (26 or more units) . The jury praised this process in which the jury, chaired by Bob as best public building . It is conceived on an project, planned around a landscaped court - Allies (Allies & Morrison) examined a epic scale yet manages to harmonise with yard, as an exemplary inner-city development. record number of entries, and visited the urban context both in its massing and Complementing the variegated brickwork shortlisted projects across the country. materiality. The jury was particularly are large gold-painted, laser-cut balconies. impressed by the scheme’s beautiful interiors The award for volume house building 4 and by the skillful use of brick in enhancing went to Barratt Homes for three projects: its street and riverside setting. Montreal House B2 in Canada Water, East Winner of the best housing development London (4), designed by PKS Architects; (1-5 units) category was 31-32 Dolben Street Bluebell Camphill phase 1 in Nuneaton, in Southwark, south London, by Association Warwickshire, by Barratt Homes Mercia; and of Ideas (1). The tightly-planned building Clover Mead phase 1 in Lawley Village, maximises its constricted urban site, while Shropshire, by Barratt Homes West Midlands. simultaneously reinforcing the grain and character of its surroundings. Copper-glazed 1 31-32 Dolben Street; architect: Association of Ideas; brickwork contractor: Masters Construction; brick: bricks introduce an unexpected shimmering Ibstock Brick – Copper Glazed. surface on the street elevations. 2 Bermondsey Island; architect: Urban Salon; brickwork Best housing development (6-25 units) was contractor: Flaherty Brickwork; brick: Ibstock Brick – awarded to Bermondsey Island, designed by Tilebrick.